White vanishing : rethinking Australia's lost-in-the-bush myth / Elspeth Tilley.

"The story of the vulnerable white person vanishing without trace into the harsh Australian landscape is a potent and compelling element in multiple genres of mainstream Australian culture. It has been sung in "Little Boy Lost, " brought to life on the big screen in Picnic at Hanging...

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Main Author: Tilley, Elspeth
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2012.
Series:Cross/cultures ; 152.
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505 0 |a The lost-child trope in white Australia narrative -- Black displacements: the semiosis of indigeneity in the white-vanishing trope -- White presencing: contamination politics and the policing of white subjectivities in the white-vanishing trope -- Temporal trouble: sequential disturbance, ambivalence, and inscription of linear time in the white-vanishing trope -- Entering terra nullius: the white-vanishing trope and the contest for Australian space -- White vanishing in situ: the semiosis of replacement in five Australian white-vanishing texts. 
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